Brooks to be on Bob Clark show

KKOB's Bob Clark announced this morning, that APS Supt Winston Brooks will be on his show Friday morning.

I assume that at some point, listeners will get to ask questions.

I have a few questions to ask and no reason to think that I would be allowed to ask them.

• Why are the findings of at least three investigations into felony criminal misconduct in the leadership of the APS and their publicly funded private police force, being kept secret from public knowledge?  Note; the question is why? and not how?

• Why do we never talk about student discipline and chronically disruptive students?

• Why are there two standards of conduct in the APS, one for students and other, lower standards, for adults?

1. Students are expected to model and promote personal accountability to a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!
2. School board members and senior administrators are accountable only to the law; the lowest standards of conduct acceptable to civilized human beings.

• Why will there never be an independent "audit" of executive and administrative standards of conduct and competence? Why will there never be an independent assessment of actual honest accountability to such standards as there are?

• What, exactly, has APS done in response to the findings of a recent audit that revealed a culture of fear of retribution and retaliation in the leadership of the APS, in especially against whistle blowers?

The over arching question of course is, why won't KKOB get down on Winston Brooks?

I would look first to the sway of former School Board President Paula Maes.  She is the President and CEO of the NM Mexico Broadcasters Association.

Intimidated by photo taking?

Maes is responsible for meteoric rise APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta's rise to one of the highest paying jobs in APS and, having the least to do with student success.

Maes, was the former President of the APS Character Counts! Leadership Council; a still secret group of people gathered to decide how to spend the grant money that US Senator Pete Domenici had brought back to town.  Not very much later, she voted to remove from her own standards of conduct, a role modeling clause which used to read;

In no case shall the standards of conduct for adults,
be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

At one point, Maes actually admitted on the record that, she would never agree to any audit that individually identified corrupt or incompetent administrators or school board members.

Maes has every reason to want to hide her abdication from Character Counts! leadership. She has every reason to hide her record and the wherewithal to get it done.  Journal Editor Kent Walz takes care of the print media, and Maes takes care of the broadcast media; KKOB, KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV.

The record, if we ever see it, will show Maes was a driver in the effort to slander and libel me before the leadership of the establishment's media; that she and Armenta worked together.  They have, so far, managed to make this about the messenger, me, and not about the message; their scandal.

How else can you explain the establishment's media's ongoing refusal to investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS?

Either way it's newsworthy.  If the APS actually has meaningful standards of conduct and competence, it is newsworthy.  If there is actual honest to God accountability to those standards, it is newsworthy.

If there is neither one nor the other,
it is newsworthy.

Why is there no investigation and report upon manifest evidence of an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, except to help cover it up?




photos Mark Bralley